Mop-head.



No. "6,444.. Patented Dec. 23, 1902 J. G. LOOK.

moP HEAD.

(Application filed m 5,.1902.)

(No Model.)

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JOHN C. LOOK, OF TUDOR, CALIFORNIA.

MOP-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,444, dated December 23, 1902.

Application filed May 5,1902. Serial No. 106,021. (No modeL) To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN C. LOOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tudor,county of Sutter, State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mop-Heads, of which the following is a specification.

The object is to provide a simple ratchetand-lever device for tightening the clamp on the mop cloth. The device consists of a catch located on the handle,a movable ratchetbar having a series of teeth engaging the said catch, means for retaining said ratchet-bar on the handle, and a lever attached to said ratchet-bar, and the clamp device attached to the said lever.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the mop-head in the closed position.

Fig. 2 is a side view in the open position.

The handle a, the clamp-head b, and the clamp-wire c are all of a usual pattern. On the handle a is located the catch d, said catch having upwardly-projecting sides (2 d, forming guides with the catch between, as seen in dotted line d Fig. 2. Farther along is located the retainer (2, having an eye through it, preferably square. The ratchet-bar F has a part F passing through the retainer 6 and another part F having the ratchet-teeth, and between the two at F is attached the lever h, it being pivoted in the box F by closing the apron F over the fulcrum-bar h. The part F is of the same width as the retainer e on the outside.

The lever h is slotted in its length, having parallel bars 7L2 h for operating over the retainer e. h 77, are lugs for attaching the clamp device 0.

The ratchet-bar is placed in the retainer 6 by giving it a turn around the bend at F, and after the clamp device is attached the ratchetbar is held parallel with the handle and the bend F prevents it from being pulled out.

The operation is as follows: The device being closed, as in Fig. 1, the lever is grasped by the end 7L4 and raised to the position shown in Fig. 2. This releases the clamp device and at the same time releases the ratchet-bar from the catch (1, but is held in the retainer 6. The mop-cloth is then inserted, the ratchet-bar placed in the catch at the notch suitable to the size of the mop-cloth, and the lever put down, as in Fig. 1. The draft on the lugs it 71, is then below the pivot-bar h and the lever is held to the handle.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y In a mop-head, a handle provided with a clamp-head and with a catch, a ratchet-bar having a series of teeth and movable along the handle and engaging the catch, means for retaining said ratchet-bar on the handle, a lever pivoted to said ratchet-bar and a clamp device pivoted to the lever.

JOHN C. LOOK. \Vitnesses:

K. LocKWooD NEVINS, BESSIE GORFINKEL. 

